In a final interview before she died in 1993, the renowned pianist and pedagogue Tatiana Nikolayeva pronounced Nikolai Lugansky "The Next One" in a line of great Russian pianists. At 36, Lugansky may ...

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky will perform on Saturday, March 21, as part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Piano Series. Lugansky will perform works by Schubert and Tchaikovsky. The performance ...

Acclaimed for a level of virtuosity that borders on athleticism, yet consistently praised for his penetrating lucidity as an interpreter of Romantic repertoire, the Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky ...

, who at only 40 is considered one of the great interpreters of Chopin and Rachmaninoff of our time. In series organizer account of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 producing enough tone for two pianists." ...

Nicolai Lugansky has become one of those few whose Aspen Music Festival performances are all but guaranteed to be memorable. Sunday’s magical, thrilling rendition of Rachmaninoff’s evergreen Rhapsody ...

NIKOLAI Lugansky is one of the great Rachmaninov pianists of his generation, and his new recording features breathtaking performances of the composer's two Piano Sonatas. The second is by far the ...

Neither the Grieg Concerto nor Prokofiev’s Third is exactly a stranger to the catalogue, but Nikolai Lugansky’s collaboration here with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester refreshes, rejuvenates and, in ...

It will be hard to top the one-two punch this past week of pianist Nikolai Lugansky on Tuesday and violinist Augustin Hadelich on Wednesday. Both were magnificent, and whether it was intentional, the ...

Nikolai Lugansky: enriching the magnificent tradition of Wagner transcriptions | Tiffany Poon records Schumann: an outstanding album from an engaging young star | The life and pianism of Samuil ...

The French record company Naïve comes late to the Liszt bicentenary party, with two contrasting recitals released almost simultaneously. Chamayou, a young pianist little known in the English-speaking ...

The long, unbroken chain of grand Russian pianists never seems to end. And you can count the Moscow-born Nikolai Lugansky as a significant new link — especially after listening to this recital at the ...